UCWG 012: Will You Survive the Cultural Singularity?

Gaby Kamp is a “third culture kid”, originally from the Netherlands, who grew up living in many countries throughout the world full time (most recently including Nigeria, Argentina, China, and Northern Ireland). She works professionally to coach others looking to adopt this mentality and lifestyle. She and Gregory discuss how cultural borders (whether physical, mental, political, or technological) are growing weaker and more arbitrary with every passing year. At such an accelerating rate of change, it is conceivable that within a few generations collective cultures as we have always known them will cease to be relevant.

Every aspect of human life on earth is changing at an accelerating rate. Parents will not know how to keep up with their kids who live in a multicultural new world. Individuals must choose to constantly challenge their own comfort limits if they are going to keep up with the changes. Citizenship is supposed to define your allegiance to a country, just as where you learned your cultural values is supposed to define your identity structure.

Cultural homelessness is lacking this grounded support in who you are according to arbitrary standards. It means that you must choose these things for yourself. It means never being able to get everything you need to feel completely at home from one single culture. It means facing resistance from people who are firmly devoted to their initial culture.

When does a person leave the natural state of growth and begin the process of succumbing to entropy?

Are you afraid to go against society’s norms and contribute to a new manner of human existence on Earth?

Websites mentioned:

http://globalnomadcoaching.com/